Predicate: promise

Roleset id: promise.01 , promise, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

promise.01: PROMISE-V NOTES: Frames file for 'promise' based on financial subcorpus; adjectival 'promising' based on BOLT-4,5. Member of VNcls future_having-13.3, promise-37.13. (from promise.01-v) PROMISE-N NOTES: Roleset based on promise.01. Verbnet class future_having-13.3. Framed by Katie. (from promise.01-n) PROMISING-J NOTES: Automatically created by Julia as an alias file for unification. (from promising.01-j)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
promising (j.)
promise (n.)
make_promise (l.)
promise (v.)Omen Commitment

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: promiser (vnrole: 13.3-agent)
        Arg1-GOL: person promised to (vnrole: 13.3-goal)
        Arg2-PPT: promised action (vnrole: 13.3-theme)

Example: one arg, subject control

        person: third,  tense: present,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full

        The revised LIN-BellSouth agreement boosts the dollar amount of the special dividend LIN promises to pay shareholders.

        Arg0: LIN
        Rel: promises
        Arg2: to pay shareholders

Example: one arg, full S

        person: third,  tense: present,  aspect: perfect,  voice: active,  form: participle

        The company has expressed a preference for GM over Ford because GM has promised it would keep Jaguar independent.

        Arg0: GM
        Rel: promised
        Arg2: it would keep Jaguar independent

Example: one arg, NP

        person: ns,  tense: present,  aspect: both,  voice: active,  form: participle

        ``They've been promising 13% to 15% growth based on the strategic moves they've made,'' he said.

        Arg0: They
        Rel: promising
        Arg2: 13% to 15% growth based on the strategic moves they've made

Example: double NP construction

        person: third,  tense: present,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full

        Mr. Jones has been taking prospective suite owners onto the field during practice to let them rub elbows with players, and promises those who actually buy one of the rooms an insider's look at the team's strategy before game time.

        Arg0: Mr. Jones
        Rel: promises
        Arg1: those who actually buy one of the rooms
        Arg2: an insider's look at the team's strategy before game time

Example: ARG2 and ARG0 and ARG1

        And this is what the Son promised us -- eternal life .

        Arg2: what
        Arg0: the Son
        Rel: promised
        Arg1: us

Example: Adjectival rel: promising

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        ECWMF has stuck to its guns for three runs on the trot now which-1 [*-1] is promising in that heights raise massively over the pole and a trough drops down east of the UK -LRB- similar to the second half of December 2010 -RRB- .

        Arg0: [*-1]
        Rel: promising
        Argm-mnr: in that heights raise massively over the pole and a trough drops down east of the UK -LRB- similar to the second half of December 2010 -RRB-

Example: Example with arg 0 and 2

        Instead , the banks secured a promise from state-owned Bank ofCommunications that it would lend Asia Development the entire $55 million at maturity to finance repayment of the originalborrowing .

        Rel: promise
        Arg0: from state-owned Bank of Communications
        Arg2: that it would lend Asia Development the entire $ 55 million at maturity to finance repayment of the original borrowing

Example: Another arg 0 and 2 example

        promises by Peugeot to open negotiations in Paris at the sametime the last man left the premises

        Rel: promises
        Arg0: by Peugeot
        Arg2: to open negotiations in Paris at the same time the last man left the premises

Example: Example with arg 0 and 1

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        Their promises to their sources

        Arg0: Their
        Rel: promises
        Arg1: to their sources